{"product_id":"book-ejcf","title":"Final Chapters","description":"Famous authors, like everybody else, know that one day they will die. \u003ci\u003eFinal Chapters\u003c\/i\u003e tells the fascinating stories of more than one hundred writers' encounters with death—and their attitudes toward the Grim Reaper: fear, uncertainty, or acceptance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrancis Bacon wrote, \"It is as natural to die as to be born,\" while Socrates told the judges who condemned him, \"And now we go our ways, I to die and you to live. Which is better is known to God alone.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeath often came in startling ways for these well-known writers. The playwright Aeschylus was conked by a turtle falling from the sky. Christopher Marlowe was stabbed in a barroom brawl. Molière collapsed while playing the role of a hypochondriac in one of his plays.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdgar Allan Poe was found semicomatose in someone else's clothes shortly before he died. Sherwood Anderson was felled by a toothpick in a martini. Did Dylan Thomas really die of eighteen straight whiskeys? And was it a bottle cap or murder that did in Tennessee Williams?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf these authors have lessons for us, the best may be that of Marcus Aurelius: \"Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.\"","brand":"Tantor","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49369282740528,"sku":"BDejcf","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49369282773296,"sku":"ZEejcf","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49369282838832,"sku":"ZMejcf","price":45.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD [ZP]","offer_id":49369282871600,"sku":"ZPejcf","price":71.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/ejcf-Square-cover.jpg?v=1779271375","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-ejcf","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}